Starfield Pre-Release Thread [GAME RELEASED, GO TO NEW THREAD]

[ArchAngel]

Yeah they look weird. It's partly the eyes, partly the blurry skin textures. They look Dreamworks-y.

They look better than Fo4 people IMO, at least.

They also look better than ME:A.. that was a horror story.

 

[Lemming42]

Lemming42 do these quests make you fight anything other than fucking space raiders?

The Rangers quest has you fight some ex-military psychos, who are a bit of fun. There are also robots, who I'm universally finding tedious to fight. Sarah's loyalty quest lets you fight some giant alien things but they suck.

It's kind of annoying how there's no locational damage. Bethesda Fallout already had shit like limb damage and breaking robots' sensors to frenzy them, but Starfield doesn't appear to have anything beyond, maybe, additional crit chance for headshots.

 

[Vic]

what's the point of this game then?

 

[ArchAngel]

what's the point of this game then?

You tell us, you have been defending it like crazy for last 4 days.. I guess buyers guilt finally passed through your system..

 

[Vic]

you think I pre-ordered Bethesda's deluxe edition?

 

[Moink]

It's kind of annoying how there's no locational damage. Bethesda Fallout already had shit like limb damage and breaking robots' sensors to frenzy them, but Starfield doesn't appear to have anything beyond, maybe, additional crit chance for headshots.

It's weirdly a system Bethesda are keeping in the Fallout games and not including in other projects, I remember being shocked it wasn't a feature in Skyrim back in 2011.

 

[ArchAngel]

I can't believe you autists are legitimately arguing over whether Cyberpunk or Starfield is better.

Neither of these games is objectively good if measured by any reasonable standard. You might as well be arguing whether it's better to drink diarrhea or used motor oil.

Now please post more nigger memes! That's the only real entertainment to be had here.

No, we are arguing which one is worse. Vic here is only one channeling his inner SumDrunkGuy , I am waiting now for him to tell us how he also works at amazon warehouse and how he bought ingame stuff for his favorite e-girl.

I'm going to enjoy your butthurt when Starfield wins over BG3 as codex GOTY

It might actually happen, seeing how many people it pissed of with its woke trash and bear buggery

Small chance. I do not like BG3 either. I do not care which shade of shit wins.

 

[man-erg]

How much of an actual RPG is it, then? The bit's I've seen are mostly just shoot outs with pistols and rifles. Looks more like a lite FPS with some RPG elements tacked on. Like Borderlands but with far less interesting weapons. Do the guns ever get more interesting and actual futuristic spacey? if it has DNA seeking biological bullets than can be fired from 5 miles away, seeking out the person you've programmed a DNA match too, I may get it. But if all it is is space pistols, space rifles and a bit of space metal horse combat, might as well stick with RDR2.

 

[ArchAngel]

How much of an actual RPG is it, then? The bit's I've seen are mostly just shoot outs with pistols and rifles. Looks more like a lite FPS with some RPG elements tacked on. Like Borderlands but with far less interesting weapons. Do the guns ever get more interesting and actual futuristic spacey? if it has DNA seeking biological bullets than can be fired from 5 miles away, seeking out the person you've programmed a DNA match too, I may get it. But if all it is is space pistols, space rifles and a bit of space metal horse combat, might as well stick with RDR2.

It seems to be about as much RPG as FO4.

 

[GamingConnoisseur]

0g combat is kind of fun in this game. Best part so far

 

[Lemming42]

How much of an actual RPG is it, then? The bit's I've seen are mostly just shoot outs with pistols and rifles. Looks more like a lite FPS with some RPG elements tacked on. Like Borderlands but with far less interesting weapons. Do the guns ever get more interesting and actual futuristic spacey? if it has DNA seeking biological bullets than can be fired from 5 miles away, seeking out the person you've programmed a DNA match too, I may get it. But if all it is is space pistols, space rifles and a bit of space metal horse combat, might as well stick with RDR2.

Your character can become very specialised, and my character may be able to do things that yours cant, and vice versa. Even basic things like stealth, boost packs and ship systems targeting are unlocked via perks, which I think is pretty cool.

Roleplaying opportunities story-wise are fairly scarce. You do often get choices in quests but your dialogue is New-Vegas-style bland, and you rarely get to assert any kind of personality or opinion on things. There are a number of factions to join so you can define yourself via that, though it's not as in-depth as something like Daggerfall in that regard (you have no status with the law or reputation in each settlement or reputation within or between factions, for example).

 

[GamingConnoisseur]

How much of an actual RPG is it, then? The bit's I've seen are mostly just shoot outs with pistols and rifles. Looks more like a lite FPS with some RPG elements tacked on. Like Borderlands but with far less interesting weapons. Do the guns ever get more interesting and actual futuristic spacey? if it has DNA seeking biological bullets than can be fired from 5 miles away, seeking out the person you've programmed a DNA match too, I may get it. But if all it is is space pistols, space rifles and a bit of space metal horse combat, might as well stick with RDR2.

Your character can become very specialised, and my character may be able to do things that yours cant, and vice versa. Even basic things like stealth, boost packs and ship systems targeting are unlocked via perks, which I think is pretty cool.

Roleplaying opportunities story-wise are fairly scarce. You do often get choices in quests but your dialogue is New-Vegas-style bland, and you rarely get to assert any kind of personality or opinion on things. There are a number of factions to join so you can define yourself via that, though it's not as in-depth as something like Daggerfall in that regard (you have no status with the law or reputation in each settlement or reputation within or between factions, for example).

I was a fan of survival skill in New Vegas and they actually put something like that in the game with perks that increase health gain from food. Overall I don't see any super cool perks, just a bunch of ok ones and a lot of meh ones. Some perks seem to give you bonus dialogue options, but that happens very rarely. There's not much roleplay opportunity outside of combat related stuff.

 

[Ulysa]

I've been playing in the high seas but I think I will buy the Xbox pass tomorrow for this. I don't know if I can recommend it as an RPG. Not even as a space sim . But the more I play it the more I want to go back to it. I think you really need to love space stuff and exploration to like it. The best moment for me was very stupid, when I was sent to Mars for the main quest and I said, "fuck it , I want to see Saturn from its moon" and I did that and it was awesome.
Music is amazing, nicely done city and Mars' base felt like being on the Expanse show.
But yes, I can understand if people don't enjoy this.

The most infuriating thing is the companion AI blocking you all the time. Ronin background sounds cool but no katana so far, pretty pointless. So I'm going to reroll something else with the introvert trait.

 

[Reinhardt]

what's the point of this game then?

porn

 

[Ladonna]

So, do we have yet another Codex Game of the Year on our hands?

 

[Lemming42]

Hey look, a museum. I'm learning about the deep backstory of Emil's magnum opus.

 

[JamesDixon]

Hey look, a museum. I'm learning about the deep backstory of Emil's magnum opus.

Jesus that reminds me of the old Soviet propaganda films....

 

[Vic]

Alright guys, I took a breather and am ready to go again. I'll let my meltdown post stand because it's kind of funny but yeah burnout is starting to get to me I should probably take a break from the game but...

 

[Old Hans]

not fucking Minecraft with a Skyrim

if only Starfield had planets on the same level as a Minecraft seed, that would truly be next gen.

 

[Ulysa]

Hey look, a museum. I'm learning about the deep backstory of Emil's magnum opus.

Jesus that reminds me of the old Soviet propaganda films....

This is presented by the UC faction, working as intended.

 

[TheHeroOfTime]

Imagine having worse facial animations than an unfinished game from almost 20 years ago.

And if only were the face animations...

 

[Vic]

not fucking Minecraft with a Skyrim

if only Starfield had planets on the same level as a Minecraft seed, that would truly be next gen.

doesn't it?

 

[Robotigan]

Umm, what's the point of levels in this game? I am level 16 and can easily kill level 65 aliens that give me like 75-100+ xp per kill

edit: even killed a level 85 just now, tho he had a bit more hp.

Some of the robots will wreck your shit if you're underleveled. I stumbled into the Mantis Quest too early and had to maximum cheese one of the lvl 28 guard bots with repeated cryo mines and emptying a stupid amount of ammo into it.

 

[AlwaysBrotoMen]

Hey look, a museum. I'm learning about the deep backstory of Emil's magnum opus.

Jesus that reminds me of the old Soviet propaganda films....

This is similar to wasteland 3

 

[Vic]

How much of an actual RPG is it, then? The bit's I've seen are mostly just shoot outs with pistols and rifles. Looks more like a lite FPS with some RPG elements tacked on. Like Borderlands but with far less interesting weapons. Do the guns ever get more interesting and actual futuristic spacey? if it has DNA seeking biological bullets than can be fired from 5 miles away, seeking out the person you've programmed a DNA match too, I may get it. But if all it is is space pistols, space rifles and a bit of space metal horse combat, might as well stick with RDR2.

Yeah, it's a looter shooter. Kill stuff, get rare weapons, get xp, etc. My issue right now is severe lack of enemy variety. I've been fighting the same type of enemies the whole time, I also think I made a mistake thinking that the wildlife are supposed to be posing a threat. I'm going to do some more exploration and see if I can kill real level 65 enemies with my lvl 16 character.